Daniel Patterson

If you’ve ever stopped by the loft for drinks or dinner, you already know that there are very few ingredients I won’t try to put in a cocktail. But until this week, I never made a cocktail out of… tree.

4. We hiked one of my favorite trails last weekend and encountered a fir tree with low-hanging, brand-new tips. We pilfered a few.

5. Said tips went into a jar of Ciroc vodka to infuse.

6. Today (eight days later), we deemed the mixture fully cooked and built a cocktail around it. Et voila! The result is a very clean, lightly citrusy drink with just a hint of floral flavor to enhance the herbal notes from the fir tips.